WAN Jobs in Merseyside

Wide Area Network (WAN)
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside with a requirement for WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WAN over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 52 75
Rank change year-on-year +2 +23 -29
Permanent jobs citing WAN 49 51 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 3.60% 4.88% 2.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.93% 20.40% 13.60%
Number of salaries quoted 42 36 23
10th Percentile £23,500 £26,250 £29,150
25th Percentile £23,688 £36,000 £33,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £69,063 £56,063 £59,375
90th Percentile £76,850 £58,750 £71,500
North West median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -9.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Merseyside

WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 189 250 228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 13.88% 23.90% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 128 69 119
10th Percentile £25,500 £29,900 £24,476
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -2.33%
75th Percentile £55,250 £55,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £70,750
North West median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Merseyside

WAN
Salary Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WAN in Merseyside.

Salary trend for WAN in Merseyside

WAN
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Merseyside over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in Merseyside

WAN
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool 0 36 £57,500 +8.49% 4
Birkenhead - 9 £24,000 -
Bootle - 4 - -
WAN
North West

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.12%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (16.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (10.20%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.90%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (32.65%) Entra ID
3 13 (26.53%) Azure
4 10 (20.41%) IaaS
5 9 (18.37%) PaaS
6 4 (8.16%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.04%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.04%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (97.96%) LAN
2 17 (34.69%) SD-WAN
3 15 (30.61%) Firewall
3 15 (30.61%) Wi-Fi
4 14 (28.57%) DHCP
4 14 (28.57%) DNS
5 12 (24.49%) Wireless
6 11 (22.45%) TCP/IP
7 9 (18.37%) VPN
7 9 (18.37%) WLAN
8 5 (10.20%) Internet
8 5 (10.20%) SSL
9 2 (4.08%) VoIP
10 1 (2.04%) Network Security
10 1 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (2.04%) SNMP
10 1 (2.04%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (10.20%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.12%) French Language
2 3 (6.12%) Italian Language
2 3 (6.12%) Spanish Language
3 2 (4.08%) Back Office
4 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (18.37%) 1st Line Support
2 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (12.24%) Lead
3 5 (10.20%) Technical Design Authority
4 4 (8.16%) Firewall Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Incident Manager
4 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) LAN Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) LAN/WAN Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Network Manager
4 4 (8.16%) Network Services Manager
4 4 (8.16%) NOC Manager
4 4 (8.16%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Presales Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Support Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) WAN Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) WLAN Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Administrator
5 3 (6.12%) AS400 Support
5 3 (6.12%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Driving Licence
2 3 (6.12%) AS400
2 3 (6.12%) iSeries
3 2 (4.08%) CCTV
4 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (36.73%) Windows
2 11 (22.45%) Windows 10
3 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.08%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (4.08%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (4.08%) Windows XP
4 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (18.37%) Agile
3 6 (12.24%) Change Management
3 6 (12.24%) Migration
4 5 (10.20%) Coaching
4 5 (10.20%) Cost Management
4 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (10.20%) ITIL
4 5 (10.20%) Line Management
4 5 (10.20%) Mentoring
4 5 (10.20%) Performance Management
4 5 (10.20%) Release Management
4 5 (10.20%) Resource Allocation
4 5 (10.20%) Service-Level Objective
4 5 (10.20%) Technology Transformation
5 4 (8.16%) Customer Experience
5 4 (8.16%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (8.16%) Digital Strategy
5 4 (8.16%) People Management
5 4 (8.16%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.37%) SQL
2 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (8.16%) A+ Certification
1 4 (8.16%) Network+ Certification
2 2 (4.08%) Degree
3 1 (2.04%) CCNA
3 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) SLA
2 1 (2.04%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (38.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.04%) DFS Replication
3 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (10.20%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (44.90%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.24%) Veeam
3 5 (10.20%) Ekahau
3 5 (10.20%) Ruckus Wireless
4 4 (8.16%) Meraki
4 4 (8.16%) VMware
5 3 (6.12%) SolarWinds
6 2 (4.08%) Cisco
6 2 (4.08%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.04%) Aderant
7 1 (2.04%) Apple
7 1 (2.04%) Aruba
7 1 (2.04%) Google
7 1 (2.04%) HP